Figure 4-4

The Bimodal Salaries of Law School Graduates With a bimodal or multimodal distribution, neither the mean nor the median is representative of the data. In an example of good statistical journalism, the New York Times reported a bimodal distribution for the pay of law school graduates in the United States (Rampell, 2010). The reporter described the two modes as the $50,000 public service job or the $160,000 ‘Big Law’ job, and noted that very few people actually earn the mean of about $90,000.